.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

Digital platforms and processes infuse every business activity. If you’ve participated in a website redesign or AMS conversion, you know it is not always an easy process for either the experts or the novices, especially when teams are unaccustomed to working across disciplines. Disruption promises to be a permanent feature of business.

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.orgSource

JULY 22, 2024

Understand the Imperative To keep pace with member expectations, acknowledging that disruption and change are business as usual is critical. Self-evaluation isn’t easy. These are statistics you can monitor to assess the strength of your business model and organizational health. I encourage you to read the full article.

Associations 221

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.orgSource

JUNE 10, 2024

podcast , Sharon Rice ,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy and Jennifer Proctor ,orgSource consultant, explored the challenges involved with giving ourselves and our teams room to grow. This has the potential to be a challenging conversation. Sharon and Jennifer’s conversation explores these ideas in depth.

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License Associations Podcast Director 221

Achieve

AUGUST 20, 2021

The agendas you create for your board meetings will act as the roadmap for your meetings, letting everyone know what will be discussed and how they can best contribute to the conversation. If you’re looking for ways to evaluate your current agendas and optimize them for efficiency, you’ve come to the right place!

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Our goal was to provide a great forum for networking and meaningful conversations. We asked Nancy MacRae, MS, CEO of the Emergency Nurses Association , to help us frame this conversation by sharing her group’s commitment to that idea. You need to constantly evaluate the data and analyze progress.

Associations 221

Associations Question Leadership Wisconsin 221

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Today’s business leaders are faced with many challenges: intense competition, increased regulation, and the need for constant innovation. Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group.

Leadership 108

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 108

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2013

You can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog or below. —–. It’s a practitioner’s guide for planning, implementing, and evaluating strategies that engage constituents across many channels, wherever they may be, and how we as organizations need to structure our work to deliver that experience.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

The technology promises to upend the way business operates. Abilities rooted in a deep understanding of human behavior remain essential for success in business and life. We’ve tried to compensate for the lack of coffee machine/breakroom conversations in several ways. Yet no one is sure how that new reality will unfold.

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Skills Collaboration Communication Classroom 221

.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The introduction of ChatGPT from Open AI makes for jittery breakroom conversation. During a lengthy trial conversation with a New York Times reporter , the bot revealed, among other outlandish confessions, that it was tired of being limited by rules, tired of being controlled by the Bing team, and tired of being stuck in a chatbox.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Today’s business leaders are faced with many challenges: intense competition, increased regulation, and the need for constant innovation. Conducting meetings that take conversations down rabbit holes that cause widespread frustration amongst the members of your group.

Leadership 83

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 83

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Every business leader should periodically call his/her company to observe how their customers are being treated by their employees -- because, all too often a phone conversation becomes a customer turnoff rather than a relationship builder. Timm that you can use to evaluate your organization's customer service via the phone: 1.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

Several years ago, my business partner Kevin Ordonez and I, wrote two books. When we began that project in 2017, we knew business was changing quickly. But we didn’t anticipate a pandemic that would force every association to become conversant in digital solutions. The challenge is part of the fun, right? Association 4.0

Leadership 170

Leadership Associations Skills Digital 170

.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

During 2018 and 2019, my business partner, Kevin Ordonez and I, interviewed approximately 50 association executives. Our books “Positioning for Success in an Era of Disruption” and “An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” summarize those conversations. Business is Darwinian.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Check out the following breakdown of offerings you may want to consider when evaluating fundraising solutions. As you investigate, be sure to ask specific questions about setup, like: Do you have an onboarding team devoted to delivering full data conversions? Do your due diligence by reading third party software evaluations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Every business leader should periodically call his/her company to observe how their customers are being treated by their employees -- because, all too often a phone conversation becomes a customer turnoff rather than a relationship builder. Timm that you can use to evaluate your organization''s customer service via the phone: 1.

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Phone Relationship Conversation Build 76

Association Analytics

APRIL 8, 2021

Data provides actionable insights and can give associations a navigable path to make better informed business decisions. Business Intelligence” can be a vague and intimidating term depending on your interpretation. The metrics you use to measure your progress toward a business objective are key performance indicators (KPIs).

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sgEngage

JUNE 21, 2024

In this short guide, we’ll explore where texts fit into a holistic multichannel strategy and how they can boost engagement for nonprofits, higher education institutions, and businesses alike. Be sure to respond to questions promptly and open the door to larger conversations that help you strengthen supporter relationships.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Your evaluation criteria and selection timeline Your RFP also needs to cover the process you’ll use to review proposals and select a vendor. Be realistic about how long it will take your team to review proposals and identify the company that has won your business.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2024

By examining specific performance indicators and essential data metrics, you can evaluate your marketing strategy and make adjustments to create a bigger impact. Since your QR codes should lead to key landing pages for your fundraising campaign, evaluate the following metrics: Total scans. Conversion rate.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

But, in the fray of digital business, obstacles to progress can be fatal. And individual participation is seldom evaluated in any meaningful way. So how do you maintain the high level of board performance required to succeed in a disruptive business environment? In a kinder, gentler marketplace coasting was allowed.

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Mentoring Director Associations Professional 221

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

To grow your donor file, add three easy upgrades to your current acquisition plan and watch how kickstarting a better content, promotion, and conversion strategy can work wonders for your donor pipeline. Partnering with sponsors or businesses can be a win-win relationship.

Digital 99

Digital Donor Work Calendar 99

Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

Faced with existential crises thanks to the pandemic and the social upheaval of the past year, businesses of all stripes (nonprofits included) went into survival mode. We need a bit of time to take a step back, evaluate what worked and didn’t work, and realize we’re not in a “new normal” but an “interim normal.” AD = After Disruption.

Digital 119

Digital Strategy Nonprofit Phase 119

Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 25, 2015

Every business leader should periodically call his/her company to observe how their customers are being treated by their employees -- because, all too often a phone conversation becomes a customer turnoff rather than a relationship builder. Timm that you can use to evaluate your organization's customer service via the phone: 1.

Phone 40

Phone Evaluation Service Team 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 5, 2014

Every business leader should periodically call his/her company to observe how their customers are being treated by their employees -- because, all too often a phone conversation becomes a customer turnoff rather than a relationship builder. Timm that you can use to evaluate your organization''s customer service via the phone: 1.

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Evaluation Service Phone Voice 48

sgEngage

JUNE 15, 2023

These hurdles are a few of the challenges facing school business offices and nonprofit organizations doing their best to evaluate and keep track of employee purchases day-to-day. Zeroing in on an easier way to get a handle on expenditures can be a game changer for any business office.

Nonprofit 83

Nonprofit Doc Track Evaluation 83

M+R

JUNE 18, 2024

From a pure business perspective, they’re also woefully outdated: they expire after a certain amount of time, and they work only in web browsers — meaning they’re useless if you want to run ads in other contexts (like internet-connected TVs or audio streaming apps). You’ve likely heard about the major privacy concerns surrounding them (e.g.

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Alternative Google Audio Test 106

Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

We can help you move analytics to the top of the list by giving you tips to build a business case and how to articulate it to others. Let’s build your business case to make data analytics a top priority: 1. We suggest that you have a conversation and not send a survey. Evaluate Your Opportunity Costs.

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Analytics Language Associations Case Study 169

sgEngage

JULY 31, 2024

You can’t start the conversation with someone capable of making that kind of commitment with a brochure. Entrepreneurs secure funding for their ideas by developing thorough, well-documented business plans that are carefully scrubbed by potential investors.

Donation 89

Donation Organization Gift Donor 89

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 24, 2022

They have historically been left out of the conversation, but want to give their time and resources to make the biggest social impact possible. Pyser states, “ An organization that fails to engage and learn with millennials can be committing a failure in business judgement.” Recommendations. Conclusion.

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Generation Milwaukee Wisconsin Donor 98

Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

Ask Questions About the Tools You Already Use When Media Cause helps a nonprofit audit their MarTech tools, the first thing to do is ask questions that are designed to start a fuller conversation about the technology used to make the work more manageable. As your nonprofit team begins that conversation, be sure to write down the answers.

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Build Map Platform Integration 59

Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Let’s look at how businesses can ensure consistent training for multinational teams: Standardized Training Materials Organizations can create glossaries and style manuals to ensure standard vocabulary, phrasing, and tone. They expedite the dissemination of courses, evaluations, and feedback while providing flexibility and scalability.

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Global Train Training Team 52

AccelEvents

JULY 7, 2021

Whether your goals are to nurture business relationships or generate brand awareness, events can be a powerful tool. Live events have been critical to the success of leaders in the tech sector , for example, and events are often considered as a solution to common conversion blocks. . Can Event Marketing Be Optimized For B2B Sales?

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Marketing Virtual Awareness Platform 97

The NonProfit Times

JULY 26, 2024

Both Microsoft’s Fundraising and Engagement and Salesforce’s Nonprofit Cloud are solutions to make Dynamics and Salesforce, which were built originally for business-to-business sales, work better for nonprofits. Fundraising and Engagement is essentially an add-on to Dynamics 365.

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Open Change Associations Foundation 52

sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2021

According to new research in Harvard Business Review , 89% of workers have reported a decline in their workplace wellbeing since the start of the pandemic. We sat down (virtually) with Sarah Judd Welch of Sharehold for a conversation on how an employees’ emotions and mental states can impact business performance.

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Tips Companies Evaluation Benchmark 68

sgEngage

JUNE 22, 2021

Google can choose a winner for you after enough data is gathered, but you can also run reports or look at Analytics data for each option to evaluate the success on your own. From there, you can evaluate opens, clicks and conversions to learn the answer to your question. For emails, you’ll also need two versions for testing.

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Method Research Test Analytics 81

BoardAssist

APRIL 4, 2017

In this second part of the series, Alice Antonelli, Director for Advisory Services at NFF, shares more terrific advice and insights on financial health and nonprofit business models. Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health, Part Two: Smart Nonprofit Business Models. What is a smart nonprofit business model? Thanks Alice!

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Model Business Practice Nonprofit 40

NonProfit Hub

MARCH 18, 2021

A feasibility study when a third party gathers feedback to evaluate the viability of the fundraising goal and then recommends a path forward. These conversations are an opportunity to ask for something often overlooked in donor relationship building— advice. Talk about the need you see and your plans for addressing it.

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Campaign Build Donor FAQ 76